Eleanor Quotes · Page 4

When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who…

— Lael Brainard

“Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I knew that Eleanor…

— Jennifer Ashley

Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy…

— Rainbow Rowell

Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You…

— Rainbow Rowell

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

— Barbara Boxer

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

— Patty Duke

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed…

— Mary Schmich

Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical…

— Westbrook Pegler

One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor…

— William A. Rusher

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data…

— Marjorie Scardino

There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young…

— Hillary Clinton

Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited……

— Rainbow Rowell

And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

— Rainbow Rowell

Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could…

— Rainbow Rowell

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…

— Shirin Ebadi

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No…

— Joel Osteen

“Pourquoi?" Kingsley demanded. "Why? You take her every way you can, every chance you have. Why her and not me?" Soren hadn't…

— Tiffany Reisz

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and…

— Elizabeth Berg

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

— Ralph McGill

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help…

— William A. Rusher

And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But…

— William A. Rusher